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Bribe claims just tip of the iceberg

James Ducker

May 17 2010, 1:01am, The Times

Shake on it: Triesman congratulates Terry after Chelsea’s FA Cup Final triumph on Saturday, but the peer apparently has been withering in his assessment of the former England captain’s marital indiscretionsRex Features

Lord Triesman’s claims that Spain and Russia plan to bribe referees in the World Cup finals may ultimately have led to his resignation as chairman of the FA and the England bid team campaigning for the right to stage the 2018 tournament. But he was no less controversial when discussing a myriad of other subjects during a one-hour meeting with Melissa Jacobs, a civil servant whom he employed as a Private Secretary when he was a Minister at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.

From affecting a mock London accent to impersonate friends of John Terry, the Chelsea defender whom he claims is in denial over the scandal that cost him the England captaincy, to his suggestion that one Fifa executive committee member has…